Personal Safety and Social Responsibilities (PSSR)

PSSR course aims to provide basic safety training to seafarers to meet the mandatory requirements of Regulation Vl/1 of the STCW Convention and covers the competence requirements as given in the table under section A- Vlll-4 of the STCW Code of the lnternational Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch keeping for Seafarers, as amended. Seafarers receive safety familiarization and instructions on personal safety, safe working practices and procedures to adopt to make their transition from a shore to a sea career as smooth as possible and provide some understanding of a seafarer's working environment and the hazards they may encounter, before they actually step on board a ship. This course is part of the "Basic STCW Safety Training" course which comprises of four modules, given under STCW A-Vl/1.